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January 20, 2006
This Is a New One On Me: Fake-Blog Spam
This is really bizarre: what appears to be an entire fake blog, filled with randomly-generated text, designed to build up Google page ranks for various webscams. In the middle of it is a completely arbitrary link to one of my old blog posts (that's how I stumbled across it - as a longtime alllergy sufferrer, I was curious what some blogger who called themselves "Flonase" had to say about my site). I guess this is latest variant on comment spam and trackback spam.
This kind of randomly-generated text always has a weird poetic quality, like William Burroughs's experiments with writing by cutting up newspapers and drawing words out of his hat. Like those proverbial monkeys at typewriters, presumably if this goes on long enough, somebody will accidentally produce the complete works of Shakespeare . . .
On the subject of webspam, I'm about to upgrade to Movable Type 3.2, which should hopefully help me fix the infestation which forced me to drop comments a few months ago. More on that to follow in a future post . . .
Posted by tedf at January 20, 2006 05:54 PM
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